Zechariah 7:3 meaning and explanation
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
Zechariah 7:3, Berean Standard Bible
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A delegation from Bethel comes to the priests and prophets in Jerusalem with a practical question. The fifth month fast commemorated the temple's destruction in 586 BC, and after seventy years the people wonder whether mourning should continue now that rebuilding has begun.
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